I am fitting an 850 complete system to a car with a remote change fitted.
The new exhaust came from a fellow member who now lives OS. Thank you MM!
I've had it fitted at the rear and the middle mount on the car and held up with wire pending fitting of the engine and gearbox.
Now the engine is fitted and the mounts and steady in place while practice fitting the inlet/exhaust manifold with the rebuilt 1.25 inch SU in place there seems to be a long way for the engine pipe to come up to the exhaust manifold joint.
Also the exhaust pipe seems to bend on the flat toward the remote housing and not alongside or away from it.
On the magic wand gearbox this would not matter as the gearbox ends near the flange of the remote change.
I would rather not put extractors on as I've tried to keep this close to original and would rather not have to cut the combined manifold - have done that once before on a 1.5 inch manifold.
I do have part of another large mini exhaust system from part of the straight pipe back to a larger muffler. I could get a new engine pipe with flange made up but the 850 one looks stock.
I know that to improve the exhaust even on an 850 with flat tops would greatly improve it, but I am looking for the stock look.
Will I be able to fit it to the car with the remote change or do I need to get it changed?
Will dropping the back mounts down allow me to bring it up to the exhaust flange?